vaccines

#VaccinesWorkForAll: North West mothers fed-up with vaccine shortage

News

Itsoseng Community Healthcare Centre was forced to send mothers and children back home without getting their immunisation vaccines.

Nthusang Lefafa
April 30, 2020

Moms agonise over shortage of essential vaccines for babies

Health, News

The shortage of vaccines given to babies when they turn 9- and 18-months-old within the Vhembe district in Limpopo has left mothers anxious about the health of their babies.

NdivhuwoMukwevho
October 29, 2019

SA is not yet polio-free

Health

South Africa is part of a ‘pariah group’ of countries not yet certified polio-free, thanks to weaknesses in our disease surveillance and vaccination programme. The Department of Health is determined to win back its certificate next month, and launched an immunisation coverage survey last week to investigate the nation’s vaccination rate.

kerrycullinan
March 11, 2019

SA is not yet polio-free

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Kerry Cullinan
March 11, 2019

Anti-vaxxers & the return of measles: Is SA immune?

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Measles outbreaks are devastating countries across the globe, linked to a massive drop in vaccination rates. The World Health Organisation has raised the alarm and ranked ‘vaccine hesitancy’ as one of the top 10 threats to public health everywhere. Is South Africa immune? HEALTH-E NEWS’ Amy Green reports.

Amy Green
February 18, 2019

Anti-vaxxers & the return of measles: Is SA immune?

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Amy Green
February 18, 2019

WORLD TB DAY: Breakthrough returns to 100-year-old vaccine

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A breakthrough South African study may change the course of vaccine research for the world's number one infectious-disease killer: tuberculosis (TB). While a new vaccine has been heralded as the only hope, researchers have returned to an old vaccine discovered almost 100 years ago for answers.

Amy Green
March 24, 2018

No more delays: Accelerating access to medicine

Health Systems

Late last month, Heads of State and governments from across the continent gathered in Addis Ababa for the 28th African Union (AU) Summit writes Yolanda Moyo of PATH South Africa.

Guest Author
February 17, 2017

Guidelines: Expanded Program on Immunisation Vaccine Guidelines, Manual

Health, Health Systems

Updated in 2010, these guidelines include South Africa's introduction of the pneumococcal conjugate and rotavirus vaccines.

healthe
March 7, 2014

Report: 2013 District Health Barometer

Health

Health Systems Trust's latest District Health Barometer, which provides district-level statistics on indicators such as maternal mortality, childhood immunisations and cervical cancer screening.

healthe
October 28, 2013

MSF calls for cheaper child vaccines

Health

On the eve of the high-level Global Vaccines Summit hosted by Ban Ki-Moon, Bill Gates and General Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned that high prices for new vaccines could put developing countries in the precarious situation of not being able to afford to fully vaccinate their children in the future.

Health-e News
April 29, 2013

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